At a moment when measles and other preventable diseases are quietly resurging across American communities, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stepped forward to assure vaccine skeptics that the Trump White House will be receptive to their cause. His public pledge to activists who have long challenged scientific consensus on vaccine safety marks a potential turning point in federal public health policy — one that arrives not in a vacuum, but against a backdrop of declining immunization rates and the human costs they carry. History has shown that the distance between political signals and public health c
RFK Jr. signals anti-vaccine activists have backing in Trump White House
Measles outbreaks linked to declining vaccination rates pose risks of serious illness and death, particularly among vulnerable populations.
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